The company surveyed 2,000 smartphone owners between October and December 2014 to find out which apps they were using most. The poll excluded apps that ship with operating systems, so apps like Apple’s Mail, iMessage, Calendar, and Safari browser are not included.

Of the apps they chose to download, users spent 13% of their total time in Facebook’s apps, and the bulk of that time (11.5% of total time spent) is spent doing social networking — probably Facebook’s main app and Instagram. The rest is split evenly between communication — most likely with messaging apps like Messenger and WhatsApp — and news reading, presumably through the main app.

Google controls roughly three-quarters of web search queries in the US and close to 90% worldwide. That kind of dominance, along with the effectiveness of search ads, makes Google an attractive partner for ad companies.

As seen in the chart below, put together by BI Intelligence, WPP, the world’s largest advertising company, spent $2.9 billion, or roughly 3.9% of its total $75 billion online media bookings, on Google ads.

Put another way, Google attracted more ad money from WPP than the next four digital properties combined. In fact, WPP spent about $2.5 billion on Fox and News Corp combined last year, while most major traditional companies received $1 billion at most from WPP.

As Business Insider’s founder and CEO said at Tuesday’s Ignition conference, “There is one law of media: money follows eyeballs.” To prove his point, Henry Blodget showed off this chart, which shows just how much Google dwarfs all the biggest media companies, from older companies like The New York Times to newer ones like Facebook.

Based on company filings charted by BI Intelligence, Google’s estimated $70 billion in revenue is more than twice that of Time Warner’s ($30 billion), five times that of Viacom’s ($14 billion), and 14 times more than Yahoo’s expected revenue this year. Even more impressive: Its revenue is almost half the size of all TV advertising around the globe ($174 billion).

Yahoo faced difficulties in processing search requests, even after the problem was fixed and became fully operational by evening. A source in Yahoo confirmed that the outage was caused by the “bad code” and not a cyber-attack as was initially thought.

In the land of digital ad revenue, Google is king. Facebook’s been slowly growing its ad business since its mid-2012 IPO, while Yahoo and AOL lag behind these companies based on this important metric. But what if Yahoo and AOL were to join forces, which might actually happen?

On Friday, the activist fund (and “significant” Yahoo investor) wrote a letter to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer suggesting she explore “a strategic combination with AOL.” According to Starboard’s Jeffrey Smith, Yahoo’s core business lies with its “search and display advertising businesses,” and adding AOL’s ad revenue would certainly help bolster its bottom line. But a “combination,” should it happen in the near future, would still fall short of Facebook’s ad efforts, and it wouldn’t even come close to the advertising empire Google has created on the Web.

It’s unclear how much Yahoo plans to invest in Snapchat. The app currently has more than 100 million users; it was valued at $3 billion last year. This new round would make Snapchat one of the most valuable startups in the world.

The pressure on the FCC to maintain net neutrality continues to mount.

ネット･ニュートラリティを維持するための、FCC に対する圧力が、増大し始めている。

In a letter directed to the chairman and commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission, tech companies expressed their disapproval of the proposals that are expected to be put forward regarding net neutrality.

With this letter, the number and size of tech companies publicly fighting for net neutrality has increased drastically. While more than 50 companies signed, just the first page of signatories alone contains giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, and Facebook. We’ve embedded the letter below:

We write to express our support for a free and open internet. Over the past twenty years, Americaninnovators have created countless Internet-based applications, content oﬀerings, and services thatare used around the world. These innovations have created enormous value for Internet users, fueledeconomic growth, and made our Internet companies global leaders. The innovation we have seen todate happened in a world without discrimination. An open Internet has also been a platform for freespeech and opportunity for billions of users.

The Commission’s long-standing commitment and actions undertaken to protect the open Internetare a central reason why the Internet remains an engine of entrepreneurship and economic growth.

According to recent news reports, the Commission intends to propose rules that would enable phoneand cable Internet service providers to discriminate both technically and ﬁnancially against Internetcompanies and to impose new tolls on them. If these reports are correct, this represents a gravethreat to the Internet.

Instead of permitting individualized bargaining and discrimination, the Commission’s rules shouldprotect users and Internet companies on both ﬁxed and mobile platforms against blocking, discrim-ination, and paid prioritization, and should make the market for Internet services more transparent. The rules should provide certainty to all market participants and keep the costs of regulation low.

Such rules are essential for the future of the Internet. This Commission should take the necessarysteps to ensure that the Internet remains an open platform for speech and commerce so that Americacontinues to lead the world in technology markets.

This isn’t the new logo; it’s one of 30 that will be featured on the homepage over the next month.

The company announced on a Tumblr blog that the new logo is intended to “reflect this spirit of innovation,” and the “renewed sense of purpose and progress at Yahoo.” The blog post’s author is CMO Kathy Savitt, Marissa Mayer’s first major hire after she took the reigns as Yahoo’s chief executive.

The fresh new design won’t be officially unveiled until September 5. Until then, Yahoo will make small alterations to the old logo featured on its homepage and network of sites. With the logo changing every day for a month, it’s a strategic and fun way to boost retention.